Turbulent Priest: Political Implications of the Popieluszko Affair
| Published date | 01 October 1985 |
| Author | Paul Lewis |
| Date | 01 October 1985 |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9256.1985.tb00112.x |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Hobbes
'
Individualistic Analysis
of
the
Fami
Zy
33.
will
now have less incentive to have children in the first place, since
they no longer need
to
raise children as allies.
(though Hobbes does not) that spouses
wi
11
have less incentive to make such
self-effacing contracts as those he describes them making in the natural
course. The state may find the family much more useful than individual
family members find
it
either before or after the arrival of the state.
Before, the family
will
prove to be insufficient to individual needs, and
after,
it
may prove somewhat superfluous to them. Hobbes' individualistic
reinterpretation of the family is very corrosive, leaving
it
exposed both
to abandonment by individual men and women, and (partly therefore) to
manipulation and dominance by the state. For better or worse, Hobbes'
analysis of sexual and family relations is remarkably free from patriarchal
or
any other kind of non-individualistic assumptions.
It
would be logical to add
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TURBULENT PRIEST: POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OFTHE
POPIELUSZKO
AFFAIR
Paul Lewis
It
was announced in Warsaw on
30
October
1984
that the body of Jerzy
Popietuszko, the kidnapped Polish priest, had been found in a reservoir near
W+ocSawek. By that time, three members of the Ministry of the Interior had
been held under arrest for at least five days in connection with his
disappearance, which had been made public on 20 October. Three days after
the discovery of the body a fourth Ministry employee, the deputy head
of
the
department in which the other three worked, was also detained.
All
four
were members
of
the Security Service and served,
it
appears, in Department
IV
-
that responsible for surveillance and control of Church activities.
Judicial investigation proceeded swiftly (despite a mysterious road accident
in which two military investigators were killed), and charges
of
murder
were
brought against Lieutenants Leszek PgkaSa and Waldemar Chmielewski and their
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